If you think regular baseball is intense, try adding superpowers into the mix.
Tropes:
- Baseball Episode: The HLB is a series of Quirk-focused baseball games with various Heroes taking the field. This episode deals with the grand finals between the teams of Gang Orca and Shishino.
- Breather Episode: With the exception of one small time crook, the entire episode is focused on the fun but intense baseball game.
- A Day in the Limelight: The episode focuses on side characters, both Heroes and Class 1-A and 1-B members.
- Chew Toy: Pretty much all of the players have their own nonlethal Dropped a Bridge on Him.
- Double Knockout: Gang Orca and Shishino do this to themselves after delivering their best throw and hit, respectively. With no players left on either team, the game ends in a draw.
- Dwindling Party: Enforced by HLB rules, exactly 9 players are allowed on each team. Unlike regular baseball, there are no extra people to allow substitutes if each person can't continue, meaning the game rolls on even if the sides are uneven, and one remaining player can win for the team by default if need be.
- Groin Attack: Grape Juice uses the his Pop-Off balls from his hair as a makeshift baseball. When Sugarman hits it, it returns to hit him right in the "sugar cubes".
- History Repeats: Mt. Lady is knocked out once again while giant sized, in the same manner just like in Season 3.
- Honor Before Reason: When it feels like there aren't many players left, Gang Orca allows the game to be tied in order to settle the game against Shisino with one shot.
- Know When to Fold Them: Tentacole convinces Earphone Jack to take a fall so she doesn't have to worry about getting hurt from the heated battle. She decides it's a good idea and feigns a fainting spell similar to Vine.
- Madness Mantra: Whether it is the anxiety of being social or the pressure of the game, Suneater does not want to be here. He is reduced to babbling the quote below.
- Slapstick: Gang Orca and Shishino end up attacking their teammates, both male and female, for messing up. Only Earphone Jack avoids Orca's wrath because he soon feels they have a chance to win.
- Something We Forgot: No one even considers that they have forgotten about Real Steel, whom Shisino piledrived into the ground midgame. Then again, almost everyone are too exhausted after the game to notice.
- There Are No Rules: Kind of. According to Present Mic, teams are allowed to use their Quirks however they wish, whether it's using multiple bats, controlling the ball, or even binding an opponent. Everyone is able to switch positions, including the runners, and the game can continue even when players are unable to continue and the teams become smaller. So long as the players don't deliberately attack each other, it's basically "anything goes".
- Worth It:
- Mt. Lady falls on Cellophane while in her giant form. Grape Rush considers this a "good death".
- When the match finally ends, both Gang Orca and Shishino collapse with both of them saying how baseball is the best.
I wanna go home. I wanna go home. I wanna go home. I wanna go home. I wanna go home. I wanna go home...
~Suneater
